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In This Issue (2/2) 

“All Pamal markets are diary markets, so that is more frequent information than we see from other services.”

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Radio Vision

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Hot Topic: River House/Warner/WAR’s Hudson Westbrook and Santa Anna/Akando's Tyler Nance play night four of five of KWJJ/Portland, OR's Hot Country Nights. Pictured (l-r) are the station's Danny Dwyer, River House's Lance Houston, Akando's Greg Raneiri, Nance, Westbrook and the station's Nick Steele and Kristen Flowers.

blake2226.jpg Nobody Et Tu: Wheelhouse's Blake Shelton wraps the first round of his Las Vegas residency shows at Caesars Palace. Pictured (l-r) are Music Choice's Jim Murphy, Shelton, Angie Murphy and the label's Ken Tucker.
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Suffolks: Galaxy's LoCash with the WWWF/Nassau-Suffolk team. Pictured (standing, l-r) are the station's Andrew Blitz, the duo's Chris Lucas, the station's Kelly Ford and Kristin Okesson, the duo's Preston Brust and the station's Robby Bridges and Marissa Stravino; (front, l-r) the station's Patrick Shea and the label's Mitch Mills.

luke2226.jpg What Tastemakes You Country: MCA's Luke Bryan welcomes "industry tastemaker" Kelly Sutton to American Idol. Sutton's episode, where she will send a contestant through to the next round, airs in March.
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Bottle Rockies: Triple Tigers' Scotty McCreery in Colorado Springs, CO. Pictured (l-r) are iHeart/Rockies' JoJo Turnbeaugh, McCreery, KUBL/Salt Lake City's John E Kage and the label's Dave Collins.

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Show Must GO Country On: Broke/Lyric Ridge Records' Julia Cole with Broke Records’ Chris Moradi, the station's Adam Bookbinder and Lyric Ridge’s Louie Newman (l-r) at KKGO/Los Angeles.

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Fall Diary Ratings
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Quad Cities DJs: Here are select Nielsen Audio Fall 2025 (9/18-12/10) two-book per year diary ratings for subscribing stations compared with their last books (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025). Ranks (in parentheses) are also among subscribers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures are Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6am-midnight.

Cumulus is no longer a subscriber in diary markets.

Beaumont, TX
(146)
KYKR iHeartMedia
6.1 (4) - 7.4 (3) - 6.1 (2)
KAYD Cumulus
1.9 (8) - 1.3 (8t) - N/A
Killeen, TX
(128)
KUSJ Townsquare
4.8 (4) - 4.9 (3t) - 5.3 (4)
Largest share since Spring 2022.
Montgomery, AL
(152)
WBAM Bluewater
5.0 (6) - 4.7 (5t) - 3.9 (6)
WQKS HD4
Bluewater Cl. Country
2.6 (11t) - 2.2 (12t) - 1.6 (9)
WLWI
Cumulus
5.6 (5) - 3.8 (7) - N/A
Peoria, IL
(155)
WXCL Midwest
7.7 (2) - 6.5 (2t) - 6.0 (4t)
WFYR Cumulus
2.1 (13t) - 2.6 (10t) - N/A
Quad Cities, IA-IL
(153)
WLLR iHeartMedia
11.4 (1) - 12.5 (1) - 12.6 (1)
52nd consecutive No. 1.
KIIK Townsquare
1.8 (11) - 1.5 (12) - 1.1 (13t)
Salisbury, MD
(127)
WWFG iHeartMedia
9.3 (1) - 6.1 (1) - 4.9 (3)
WRDE Draper Media
1.4 (11t) - 1.3 (12t) - 2.3 (9t)
Savannah, GA
(134)
WJCL Cumulus
3.8 (8) - 5.4 (6) - N/A
WUBB
Dick Broadcasting
Does not subscribe.
Springfield, MO
(131)
KTTS SummitMedia
8.3 (1) - 7.9 (1) - 7.7 (2)
KWTO Zimmer Classic Country
4.3 (8t) - 6.7 (3t) - 4.0 (7t)
KSWF iHeartMedia
3.7 (10t) - 4.4 (6t) - 3.7 (9t)
KOMG Mid-West Family Cl. Country
2.0 (14t) - 1.3 (17t) - 1.9 (16)
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The Year End Print Special

featuring: 
The Year In Music:
Morgan, Ella & More

CMA Radio Winners
Recap The Week

Label Of The Year
Big Loud Turns 10

BMG's Jon Loba:
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The 2026 Grammy
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A quick reference guide to the 2026 Grammy Nominees



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Inside This Issue: 

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